In spite of the Iraq posts being discontinued, Santosh Helekar continues his vicious ad hominem attacks on me personally, this time for comments I jokingly made to Tim de Mello about operating on feni fumes. Tim had facetiously exulted at the prospect of somehow blaming the US for causing the recent tsunami by not signing the Kyoto Treaty. I don't feel insulted if someone "accuses" me of partaking of Goa's national drink from time to time. Tim probably chuckled at my comment, but Santosh seems devoid of any sense of humor or irony:
Santosh jumps to Tim's defense: "The above post, besides containing gratuitous insults against Tim de Mello, propagates politically motivated nonsense regarding global warming. The article contained in it is a striking example of vicious right-wing propaganda. Global warming is a scientifically addressable problem, and there is already a scientific consensus on many of its aspects. For example, the following is known to be true with a high level of certainty based on objective evidence:" Santosh then goes on to cite the case for global warming. Of course, Santosh, who I guess fancies himself to be a left-wing propagandist, is so bent on attacking me as a right-wing propagandist that he completely misses my point, which was not that there is no global warming taking place, but that there has been global warming and cooling going on throughout the earth's history, way before the industrial revolution which the environmental zealots blame today. The following three paragraphs from the article I sent for Tim's consideration made that point when it said: "As historical facts, global warming and cooling have occurred. The Earth warmed in the Middle Ages, up to a peak around 1300 when it was perhaps 2 degrees warmer than now, whereupon the Little Ice Age ensued until about 1900. We'd like to have that explained in the context of "man-made global warming."